About the book: 2021 / There is no more zone, all that remains is to be sad for the old days and nostalgic, turning your bar on the outskirts of St. Petersburg into a memorial to an anomalous territory. But the sudden disappearance of old friends in the middle of the city again changes the life of a veteran stalker. Having set off in the footsteps of the missing, he finds himself in an unknown place and the further he goes, the more he becomes convinced that it is there that another Zone has arisen. Helping new, very unusual acquaintances leads to dangerous adventures: a mysterious laboratory, murders for which their company is accused... The set of troubles is aggravated by the fact that that they are being pursued by one of the most terrible mutants, and some of their friends are not what they seem. The stalker will have to understand all the secrets that the anomalous lands, called the “Peter Zone”, have thrown at him.».